Timber Trade Federation launch statistics tool

Interactive dashboard aims to offer members insight into supply metrics.

The UK Timber Trade Federation has launched a new statistics tool that they say can give insight into supply patterns and trends.

The new dashboard allows members to view timber imports by product group including softwoods, hardwoods, panel products, or overall wood imports.

Users will be able to hover over points on graphs to find out how many cubic meters of timber were imported in any given month or year, as well as how many cubic metres of timber were imported from different countries of dispatch offering insight into what percentage of imports this represents each year, and their value.

Users can select different parts of the dashboard to apply filters, for example, total hardwood imports from Cameroon, or softwood imports from Germany.

Currently the dashboard is focused on timber import however, the dashboard is set to be expanded in future to include UK production, with the figures for 2020 soon to be added.

The tool can be found here.